Unleashing the Kraken

Unleashing the Kraken

by | Aug 15, 2014 | Food Industry

From the Kraken Congee website You’ve heard of pop-up restaurants, right? It’s the concept wherein a temporary restaurant “pops up” inside a different restaurant. Sometimes the food is prepared by people from that restaurant, and sometimes...
Unleashing the Kraken

Modernist Cuisine

by | Dec 17, 2011 | Food Industry

Have you ever wondered what kind of kitchen a chef, a scientist/inventor, and a chemist would have? You probably imagine top notch cooking equipment, maybe some crazy beakers and glass tubing, a lot of scales, a centrifuge, and a sous vide water bath. You’d be...
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Line Cooking and Setting Up Your Station

by | Nov 1, 2011 | Culinary Arts

My first time working on a line was at Stopsky’s Delicatessen when we opened in May 2011. It was terrifying. Of course, the chef and the other cooks were supremely helpful, but there’s something truly intimidating about the first time you hear “Order...
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Square One Pizza – Real version

by | Oct 26, 2011 | Culinary Arts

After Chef Vicky allowed us to experiment with our own pizza doughs, she demo’d a pizza assembly for the bistro. This quarter we’re making pizza in advance and selling by the slice. Customers can also wait for a made-to-order pizza, but they don’t...